15 AUGUST 1941, page 2

Health Of Troops In The East At Any Earlier Period

of history campaigns such as tho se which have been fought in the Middle East would undoubtedl y have been attended by severe losses from disease among th e troops. Even in the......

A Great Public Servant

Lord Willingdon was one of the greatest public servants of his generation. From 1913, when he became Governor of Bombay, to the day of his death this week, he had been serving......

Order In Reconstruction

Though the annnuncement of the War Damage Commission which has just been issued to local authorities is concerned solely with the making of payments in respect of war damage,......

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Town Children In The Country

Nearly two years have passed since the first children in vulnerable areas were officially evacuated to safer regions, and it is now possible to form some estimate of the more......

Rabindranath Tagore

Sir Rabindranath Tagore performed in his life and in his writings the functions of the " poet-prophet " of tradition. He had, as an Indian, the necessary qualifications of birth......

Britain, Russia And Turkey

The Anglo-Soviet pledge to Turkey will assure the Govern- ment of that country that it can now look for help in a quarter which hitherto had caused continual anxiety. At one......